Izabela Kowalczyk

Izabela Kowalczyk is a French-Polish artist living and working in Marseille, France.
Born in 1975, she grew up in Poland where in 2002 she obtained her Masters of Art diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łòdź.

Her early influences – the Polish constructivists from the 30's like Katarzyna Kobro, Władyslaw Strzemiński, Maria Jarema - aroused her interest for artists and architects like Kazimierz Malewicz, Aleksander Rodczenko, groups The Stijl and Bauhaus.
Izabela's future investment in the questioning of the nature of space and its perception, by searching for a convergence between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional objects had already announced itself by her early fascination for the work of Elsworth Kelly, Sol Le Witt, Frank Stella or David Tremlett.

A few weeks of residency at Art School in Stuttgart, Germany in 2000 and a four month stay in London, UK in 2001 let her discover, among others, Tony's Cragg sculptures oscillating between an abstraction and a kind of figuration remaining in it, and the sculptural and graphic work of Eduardo Chillida.

In 2002 Izabela was a grand-holder of the French government, that allowed her to study at the Aix-en-Provence Art School and obtain a diploma in 2005.
Since then she exh...

2002 Master of Arts, Fine Arts Academy, Łódź, Poland

2005 D.N.S.E.P., École Superiéure d'Art, Aix-en-Provence, France

Selected group exhibitions:
2024

-Arrangements & Contemplation, Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand, Aix-en-Provence, France

-L’art construit, unicité, multiplicité, Galerie ZEMMA, Marseille, France

2023
-Architextures, Lucie BITUNJAC & Izabela KOWALCZYK, N5 Galerie, Montpellier

2022
- L'Esprit de formes, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

2021
-Only women, 6th international biennal of non objectif art, Pont de Claix, France
-De la collection à l'atelier, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
-I do paint ! MAC Arteum, Chatêauneuf-le-rouge, France
-High Art Orchestra, Galerie Jean-Louis Ramand, Aix-en-Provence, France

2020
-Maison contemporain, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France
2019
- The London Group Open 2019, The Cello Factory, London, UK

- Galerie La Ferronnerie / Brigitte Négrier fête ses 30 ans ! Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Duo Jérémie DELHOME / Izabela KOWALCZYK, Espace GT, Mundart, Marseille, France

- Duo Yifat GAT / Izabela KOWALCZYK, Atelier Séruse, Marseille, France

2018
- Papiers mesurés, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Avant travaux, 224, rue Paradis, Marseille, France

2017
- Champs Libres, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

- Aesthetica Art Price 2017, 100 contemporar...